OPERATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD

An operation management device includes a processor that executes a procedure including: for plural nodes that includes plural nodes operating as virtual computers on one or more computers and that plural nodes that have a dependency relationship, deriving group information indicating the plural nodes having the dependency relationship on a basis of communication information from when the inter-node communication; and based on location information of the respective plural nodes included in the derived group information, determining operation information indicating that plural nodes included in the group information operate on a single computer, or operation information indicating that the plural nodes included in the group information respectively operate on plural computers, for the plural nodes included in the group information.